Trump not invited to climate talks, Yemeni president under house arrest

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An official representing French President Emmanuel Macron said that U.S. President Donald J. Trump is not invited to the Paris climate change summit in December. Other representatives of the United States still will attend. Trump announced in June that the U.S. will pull out of the 2015 Paris Agreement climate deal in 2020, the only country to make such a move.

Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi is under house arrest in Saudi Arabia. The president, along with his sons and ministers, is barred from returning home for months. Yemeni officials told the Associated Press that the ban was prompted by hostility between Hadi and the United Arab Emirates, which is part of the Saudi-led coalition in southern Yemen. They’re battling Houthi fighters, who control the north.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman stated Iran was ultimately responsible for the missile, fired by Houthi rebels, at the Riyadh airport on November 4. Both Saudi Arabia and the U.S. believe that the missile, as well as most Houthi weapons, are supplied by the Iranian regim.

A public health emergency was declared in Delhi, India, with the Indian Medical Association saying pollution was at an “alarming” level. The U.S. embassy website said levels of harmful pollutants were more than double the threshold authorities classify as hazardous, according to The Guardian.

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